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Bernanke: More Execs Should Have Faced Prosecution For 2008 Crisis

Ben Bernanke, the protector of the too big to fail banks, now that he is no longer head of the Federal Reserve, tells us he thought more individuals should have been prosecuted for their actions leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. Well, Ben, if you thought this way, why didn’t you speak out as Fed Chairman. Maybe Eric Holder would have paid attention. (Then again, maybe not.) And you say the “Where’s my bailout signs?” hurt you? I call BS on that Ben. You just want some sympathy. You’ll get none from me. You played your part to perfection Ben. You were the ultimate team member. Unfortunately your team was Team Wall Street, not Team USA. – Shorty Dawkins, Associate Editor

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday that more corporate executives should have been prosecuted for their actions leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.

Bernanke told USA Today that the U.S. Justice Department and other law enforcement agencies focused on investigating or indicting financial firms.

“But it would have been my preference to have more investigation of individual action, since obviously everything that went wrong or was illegal was done by some individual, not by an abstract firm,” Bernanke was quoted as saying.

Bernanke, who presided over the U.S. central bank during the financial crisis considered the worst since the Great Depression, said it was not up to him to decide whether to prosecute individuals, noting: “The Fed is not a law-enforcement agency.”

“The Department of Justice and others are responsible for that, and a lot of their efforts have been to indict or threaten to indict financial firms,” Bernanke added. “Now a financial firm is of course a legal fiction; it’s not a person. You can’t put a financial firm in jail.”

Bernanke, who retired from the Fed last year after eight years as chairman, said of the financial crisis: “I think there was a reasonably good chance that, barring stabilization of the financial system, that we could have gone into a 1930s-style depression.”

In the interview, Bernanke, whose memoir is being published this week, acknowledged that analysts were slow to realize how serious the economic downturn would become and faulted himself for not doing more to explain why it was in the public’s interest to rescue the financial firms that helped cause the crisis.

“Every time I saw a bumper sticker which said, ‘Where’s my bailout?’ it hurt,” the newspaper quoted him as saying.

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““Every time I saw a bumper sticker which said, ‘Where’s my bailout?’ it hurt,” the newspaper quoted him as saying.”

Did it?

Guess what, wait until we prosecute you for Treason, and ask for the death penalty. I think that will hurt a lot more. But this time it will not hurt the American people, just the treasonous scum who was working against our nation.

Right on CAL.
As if that whole mess was not enough….All the little wall street scums are crying for more. Maybe they should not have used OUR hard earned money for gigantic bonuses and big parties. This is one patriot who NEVER forgets and can hold a grudge forever. I think I get that from my mother. She’s a tough old bird.

People in this country believe they have to work with banks; they just refuse to give up the convenience. Also, as world leaders in consumption, the appetite for “stuff” drives spending via the use of bank cards. Digital money. Employers use digital paychecks. Many examples exist of the banks controlling your lives. Until the MSM baboons get it up the ass and feel the real pain that 94 million unemployed are feeling, we will see no changes. The middle class will continue to go extinct, leaving the elites dictating to the pawns. Think third world strife coming to your neighborhood …. soon.

Bernanke is another example on the list of scum who should get the rope, but will go unscathed. There is little anger, primarily apathy.